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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

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Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.
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But, gee, the other nurse says, what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...?You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.
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To hell with facts! We need stories.
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- he's finished with that it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.
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See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
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I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.
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But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
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I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
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I been away a long time.
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
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The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
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Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
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Anesthetized time nothing moves and everything is at once.
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Anti-drug fanatics and cops are the criminals - it's like McCarthyism. They need someone to dislike to distract the public from the really important problems.
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The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.
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The best of all possible cages.' Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. 'What more can one ask?
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You seem to forget, Miss Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
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This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.
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